Qemu - RHEL Build - Stuck at Press <Enter> To Begin Installation Process (Build Machine - Ubuntu OS)

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Hi,

As stated on the title, I’m unable to start the build process due to being stuck at the installation process window. My boot commands are sent but I cannot move forward. Below is the Packer log.

`2020/08/05 15:16:21 [INFO] Packer version: 1.5.6 [go1.14.2 linux amd64]

2020/08/05 15:16:21 Checking ‘PACKER_CONFIG’ for a config file path
2020/08/05 15:16:21 ‘PACKER_CONFIG’ not set; checking the default config file path
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Attempting to open config file: /root/.packerconfig
2020/08/05 15:16:21 [WARN] Config file doesn’t exist: /root/.packerconfig
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Setting cache directory: /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/packer_cache
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Creating plugin client for path: /usr/bin/packer
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Starting plugin: /usr/bin/packer string{"/usr/bin/packer", “plugin”, “packer-builder-qemu”}
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Waiting for RPC address for: /usr/bin/packer
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Packer version: 1.5.6 [go1.14.2 linux amd64]
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Checking ‘PACKER_CONFIG’ for a config file path
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: ‘PACKER_CONFIG’ not set; checking the default config file path
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Attempting to open config file: /root/.packerconfig
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [WARN] Config file doesn’t exist: /root/.packerconfig
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Setting cache directory: /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/packer_cache
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: args: string{“packer-builder-qemu”}
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Plugin address: unix /tmp/packer-plugin223197801
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Waiting for connection…
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Received unix RPC address for /usr/bin/packer: addr is /tmp/packer-plugin223197801
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Serving a plugin connection…
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Build debug mode: false
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Force build: true
2020/08/05 15:16:21 On error:
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Preparing build: qemu
qemu: output will be in this color.

2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: use specified accelerator: kvm
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: MemorySize 0 is too small, using default: 512
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Waiting on builds to complete…
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Starting build run: qemu
2020/08/05 15:16:21 Running builder: qemu
2020/08/05 15:16:21 [INFO] (telemetry) Starting builder qemu
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Qemu path: /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64, Qemu Image page: /usr/bin/qemu-img
==> qemu: Retrieving ISO
==> qemu: Trying /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/ISOs/rhel-server-7.8-x86_64-dvd.iso
2020/08/05 15:16:21 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Acquiring lock for: /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/ISOs/rhel-server-7.8-x86_64-dvd.iso?checksum=md5%3A03e744681b67cbfe4c89b9fc7a89f21b (/build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/packer_cache/f6ffef63d4b928733ec159bca1ecb6ac73481cad.iso.lock)
==> qemu: Trying /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/ISOs/rhel-server-7.8-x86_64-dvd.iso?checksum=md5%3A03e744681b67cbfe4c89b9fc7a89f21b
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Leaving retrieve loop for ISO
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: No floppy files specified. Floppy disk will not be made.
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Creating disk with Path: output-qemu/rhel78 and Size: 60000M
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Executing qemu-img: string{“create”, “-f”, “qcow2”, “output-qemu/rhel78”, “60000M”}
==> qemu: /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/ISOs/rhel-server-7.8-x86_64-dvd.iso?checksum=md5%3A03e744681b67cbfe4c89b9fc7a89f21b => /build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/packer_cache/f6ffef63d4b928733ec159bca1ecb6ac73481cad.iso
==> qemu: Creating required virtual machine disks
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: stdout: Formatting ‘output-qemu/rhel78’, fmt=qcow2 size=62914560000 cluster_size=65536 lazy_refcounts=off refcount_bits=16
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: stderr:
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Found available port: 8431 on IP: 0.0.0.0
==> qemu: Starting HTTP server on port 8431
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Looking for available communicator (SSH, WinRM, etc) port between 2222 and 4444
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Found available port: 3979 on IP: 127.0.0.1
==> qemu: Found port for communicator (SSH, WinRM, etc): 3979.
==> qemu: Looking for available port between 5900 and 6000 on 127.0.0.1
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Looking for available port between 5900 and 6000 on 127.0.0.1
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Found available port: 5996 on IP: 127.0.0.1
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Found available VNC port: 5996 on IP: 127.0.0.1
==> qemu: Starting VM, booting from CD-ROM
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Qemu --version output: QEMU emulator version 4.2.0 (Debian 1:4.2-3ubuntu6.3)
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Copyright © 2003-2019 Fabrice Bellard and the QEMU Project developers
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Qemu version: 4.2.0
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Qemu Builder has no floppy files, not attaching a floppy.
==> qemu: Overriding defaults Qemu arguments with QemuArgs…
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Executing /usr/bin/qemu-system-x86_64: string{"-m", “4048M”, “-netdev”, “user,id=user.0,hostfwd=tcp::3979-:22”, “-smp”, “cpus=2,sockets=2”, “-name”, “rhel78”, “-vnc”, “127.0.0.1:96”, “-machine”, “type=pc,accel=kvm”, “-display”, “gtk”, “-drive”, “file=output-qemu/rhel78,if=virtio,cache=writeback,discard=ignore,format=qcow2”, “-boot”, “once=d”, “-cdrom”, “/build/Images/Cloud-imagebuild/packer_cache/f6ffef63d4b928733ec159bca1ecb6ac73481cad.iso”, “-device”, “virtio-net,netdev=user.0”}
2020/08/05 15:16:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Started Qemu. Pid: 542731
==> qemu: Waiting 14s for boot…
2020/08/05 15:16:43 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Qemu stderr: qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn’t support requested feature: CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
2020/08/05 15:16:43 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Qemu stderr: qemu-system-x86_64: warning: host doesn’t support requested feature: CPUID.80000001H:ECX.svm [bit 2]
==> qemu: Connecting to VM via VNC (127.0.0.1:5996)
==> qemu: Typing the boot command over VNC…
2020/08/05 15:16:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Connected to VNC desktop: QEMU (rhel78)
2020/08/05 15:16:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF52
2020/08/05 15:16:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting 1s
2020/08/05 15:16:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF09
2020/08/05 15:16:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘e’, code 0x65, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘x’, code 0x78, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ’ ', code 0x20, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘a’, code 0x61, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘p’, code 0x70, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘p’, code 0x70, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘e’, code 0x65, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘n’, code 0x6E, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘d’, code 0x64, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ’ ', code 0x20, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘k’, code 0x6B, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘s’, code 0x73, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘=’, code 0x3D, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘h’, code 0x68, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘p’, code 0x70, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘:’, code 0x3A, shift true
2020/08/05 15:16:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘/’, code 0x2F, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘/’, code 0x2F, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘1’, code 0x31, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘0’, code 0x30, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘0’, code 0x30, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘2’, code 0x32, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘2’, code 0x32, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘:’, code 0x3A, shift true
2020/08/05 15:16:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘8’, code 0x38, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘4’, code 0x34, shift false
2020/08/05 15:16:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘3’, code 0x33, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘1’, code 0x31, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘/’, code 0x2F, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘r’, code 0x72, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘h’, code 0x68, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘e’, code 0x65, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:01 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘l’, code 0x6C, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:01 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘7’, code 0x37, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:01 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:01 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘8’, code 0x38, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:01 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:02 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘c’, code 0x63, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:02 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘f’, code 0x66, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:02 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘g’, code 0x67, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:02 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ’ ', code 0x20, shift false
2020/08/05 15:17:02 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF0D
2020/08/05 15:17:03 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting 1s
==> qemu: Using ssh communicator to connect: 127.0.0.1
2020/08/05 15:17:04 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting for SSH, up to timeout: 26m40s
==> qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available…
2020/08/05 15:17:04 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:17:04 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:17:04 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:18:04 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:18:11 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:18:11 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:18:11 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:19:11 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:19:18 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:19:18 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:19:18 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:20:18 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:20:25 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:20:25 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:20:25 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:21:25 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:21:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:21:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:21:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:22:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:22:39 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:22:39 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:22:39 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:23:39 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:23:46 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:23:46 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:23:46 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:24:46 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:24:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:24:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:24:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:25:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:26:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:26:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:26:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:27:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 15:27:07 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3979…
2020/08/05 15:27:07 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 15:27:07 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 15:27:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Received interrupt signal (count: 1). Ignoring.
2020/08/05 15:27:32 Cancelling builder after context cancellation context canceled
2020/08/05 15:27:32 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [WARN] Interrupt detected, quitting waiting for SSH.`

Here’s my json file
{
“variables”: {},
“builders”: [
{
“type”: “qemu”,
“accelerator”: “kvm”,
“iso_checksum_type”: “md5”,
“ssh_username”: “administrator”,
“ssh_password”: “password”,
“ssh_wait_timeout”: “1600s”,
“http_directory”: “http”,
“boot_wait”: “14s”,
“format”: “qcow2”,
“boot_command”: [
“”,
"text append ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/rhel7.8.cfg ",
“”
],
“shutdown_command”: “echo root | sudo -S shutdown -P now”,
“headless”: “false”,
“iso_checksum”: “03e744681b67cbfe4c89b9fc7a89f21b”,
“iso_url”: “/ISOs/rhel-server-7.8-x86_64-dvd.iso”,
“vm_name”: “rhel78”,
“disk_size”: 60000,
“qemuargs”: [
[ “-m”, “4048M” ]
],
“cpus”: 2
}
],
“provisioners”: ,
“sensitive-variables”: [
“ssh_pass”
]
}

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You can send the enter keypress like this:

  "boot_command": [
    "text append ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/rhel7.8.cfg <enter>"
  ],

For more info on special characters in the boot command, see: https://www.packer.io/docs/builders/qemu#boot-configuration

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Tried different commands and I’m still stuck on the same window

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Here’s the log where the boot command has been sent

2020/08/05 18:13:47 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Connected to VNC desktop: QEMU (rhel78)
2020/08/05 18:13:47 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF52
2020/08/05 18:13:47 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting 1s
2020/08/05 18:13:48 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF09
2020/08/05 18:13:48 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting 1s
2020/08/05 18:13:49 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ’ ', code 0x20, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:50 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:50 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘e’, code 0x65, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:50 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘x’, code 0x78, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:50 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:50 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ’ ', code 0x20, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘a’, code 0x61, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘p’, code 0x70, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘p’, code 0x70, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘e’, code 0x65, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:51 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘n’, code 0x6E, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘d’, code 0x64, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ’ ', code 0x20, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘k’, code 0x6B, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘s’, code 0x73, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:52 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘=’, code 0x3D, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘h’, code 0x68, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘t’, code 0x74, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘p’, code 0x70, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:53 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘:’, code 0x3A, shift true
2020/08/05 18:13:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘/’, code 0x2F, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘/’, code 0x2F, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘1’, code 0x31, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:54 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘0’, code 0x30, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘0’, code 0x30, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘2’, code 0x32, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:55 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘2’, code 0x32, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘:’, code 0x3A, shift true
2020/08/05 18:13:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘8’, code 0x38, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:56 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘0’, code 0x30, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘2’, code 0x32, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘9’, code 0x39, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘/’, code 0x2F, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘k’, code 0x6B, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:57 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘s’, code 0x73, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘.’, code 0x2E, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘c’, code 0x63, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘f’, code 0x66, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Sending char ‘g’, code 0x67, shift false
2020/08/05 18:13:58 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF0D
2020/08/05 18:13:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF0D
2020/08/05 18:13:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: Special code ‘’ found, replacing with: 0xFF0D
2020/08/05 18:13:59 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting 1s
==> qemu: Using ssh communicator to connect: 127.0.0.1
2020/08/05 18:14:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Waiting for SSH, up to timeout: 26m40s
==> qemu: Waiting for SSH to become available…
2020/08/05 18:14:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3743…
2020/08/05 18:14:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 18:14:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH
2020/08/05 18:15:00 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] SSH handshake err: Timeout during SSH handshake
2020/08/05 18:15:07 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [INFO] Attempting SSH connection to 127.0.0.1:3743…
2020/08/05 18:15:07 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] reconnecting to TCP connection for SSH
2020/08/05 18:15:07 packer-builder-qemu plugin: [DEBUG] handshaking with SSH

Still stuck on “Press the key to behin the installation process”

5

Here’s the json file I used. Still stuck on the same window

{
“variables”: {},
“builders”: [
{
“type”: “qemu”,
“accelerator”: “kvm”,
“ssh_username”: “administrator”,
“ssh_password”: “somepass”,
“ssh_wait_timeout”: “1600s”,
“http_directory”: “http”,
“boot_wait”: “14s”,
“format”: “qcow2”,
“boot_command”: [
"<up><wait><tab><wait> text ks=http://{{ .HTTPIP }}:{{ .HTTPPort }}/ks.cfg<enter><wait>"
],
“shutdown_command”: “echo root | sudo -S shutdown -P now”,
“headless”: “false”,
“iso_checksum”: “03e744681b67cbfe4c89b9fc7a89f21b”,
“iso_url”: “/ISOs/rhel-server-7.8-x86_64-dvd.iso”,
“vm_name”: “rhel78”,
“disk_size”: 60000,
“qemuargs”: [
[ “-m”, “4048M” ]
],
“cpus”: 2,
“qemu_binary”: “/usr/bin/qemu-kvm”
}
],
“provisioners”: ,
“sensitive-variables”: [
“ssh_pass”
]
}

6

Bummer. My next debug tips are to make sure that ks.cfg exists and is accessible inside your “http” directory, and to connect to your instance via VNC and figure out what keystrokes you need to perform manually to un-stick the boot. Is it possible that the boot is just taking a while to get warmed up and you need to just increase the wait?

7

The cfg does exist. We’re able to curl it once the VM is running.

Unfortunately, the TigerVNC installed does not allow us to manually perform keystrokes. Not sure why.

I can try increasing the boot_wait.